What happens if you steer with one hand
The saying “you don’t need to hold on to the steering wheel, you need to hold it” is especially true for those drivers who are used to driving, in the most literal sense, “with one left”.
Everyone is familiar with the typical picture on the road: the driver's window is lowered at the car, the driver's elbow is “elegantly” sticking out of the window. This style of driving - "the collective farmer got out on the track" - implies that the steering wheel is held in the desired position exclusively with the right hand. But this is only the visible part of the whole “iceberg” of those who use predominantly one limb when driving a car. A huge number of fellow citizens do not use both hands to manipulate the steering wheel, but only one left hand. It is characteristic that in no driving school in the country, even in the most "leftist", future drivers are taught to steer with two hands. In this regard, it’s even strange: where does this love for “one-handed” driving come from?
Most likely, the roots here are in the increased driver's conceit, which almost inevitably overwhelms most drivers after about 3-6 months of driving experience. At this moment, a novice driver, as a rule, already feels like a seasoned professional who can handle any traffic situation. And he can drive the car literally with one left hand. Moreover, in a car with “mechanics”, in any case, you have to constantly distract your right hand from the steering process - to change gears with the gearshift lever. By and large, it is possible to take your hands off the steering wheel while the car is moving only for this purpose. And in a car with an "automatic" hands only on the steering wheel and should be. Moreover, the optimal grip is at “9 hours 15 minutes”, if you mentally put a standard hour dial on the steering wheel.
All other types of steering grip are less effective and make it difficult to drive a car in an extreme situation. And with one hand, it is unlikely that you will be able to “catch” a car that suddenly fell into a skid or went out of the turn. Yes, and high-speed taxiing, when, for example, another yard “racer” flies out towards you and you need to dodge somehow, you can’t do it with one hand. While the driver reacts and brings his second hand to the steering wheel, precious fractions of a second, when you can still do something, will flow away forever. Some adherents of “one-handed” steering claim that they have “driven with one hand for a hundred years” or “I can even drift with one hand.”
In fact, the first statement means only one thing: during his driving career, his author has never got, as they say, into a real “batch” on the road, when you need to steer at all possible speed in order to avoid an accident or, at least, reduce its severity. consequences. Lucky people are generally more prone to an optimistic view of the world. Those who “drift with one left” miss another point: by deliberately letting the car drift, a person, as a rule, knows and is ready for what will happen next. A dangerous situation on the road always happens suddenly and develops unpredictably for the participants. Therefore, taxiing with one hand on a public road is a deliberate deprivation of yourself and those around you of extra chances of surviving in an accident, for example.
